The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-06-29
unable to make any definite recommen-
dation and submit the whole matter to
your better judgment.

unable to make any definite recommen.
dation and submit the whole matter to
your better Judgment"
Altogether False Alarm.
COLUMBIA, June 21.-In accordance
with instructions from the home Office,
went TO Laurens yesterday to invcsti-
gate the rumors which have been SO
wildly circulated as TO an uprising of
colored farm laborers, and | came back
to-day satisfied that nine -tenths of the
reports eyo been without Justification.
| The negroes have been tricked by
Hoover and men of his stamp into en-
tering labor association, which is use
less to them and which they do not an
derstand Hoover holds the fees and
they hold the meetings. They huye It
blind idea that Joining such an ore;auiHu.
ton will help them financially. If, rs is
reported, not : per cent. Of the negroes
in that section work tor wages it IL i'm
possible to see what good strike would
do them. They contract to cultivate the
crops for a share, and rs the crop is al
most laid by now II violation of these
contracts would simply save money to
| the farmers.
| AS to tho talk of insurrcction the peo-
pie in the town of Laurcns have no faith
in it. 1t is impossible to trace the
rumors to this effect to any authentic
source; There is less rmcaSincSs and
concern in the town Of Laurcns on this
subject than there is in Charleston or
Columbia. All work is going on quietly
i'll the section alleged to be threatened
and the concurrent opinion of every one
| spoke to III Laurcns was that nothing
pnnlI hn nCpnrfninn1 nr 1,,r 10,
thus far
The section where the labor organiza-
tiOns exist is near the Grcenvilc and
Spartanburg lines. Tho whites are in
the majority. There is no county in the
State where the negroes have been
longer and more completely within the
control of the whites than in Laurcns.
An insurrcction would simply mean their
own obliteration. Besides this, there is
no issue which could SO excite them as
to make them desperate. There is no
conflict of wages, such as led to the rice
field strikes of 1876. They have the
prospect of gathering the finest crops
they have had for decade Their flu
tare is full Of hope for material success.
The sum of the whole matter is that
the negroes have been kept so complete
organization of any kind is unusual 10
them, and the fact that have now or
ganlZed for an underlined ugrarian Dur-
pose is enough to make some foolish or
unreasonable people imagine vain things.
The people OF the town OF Laurcus are
infinitely more concerned in the build
ing of their cotton factory than III this
thing, which is a sensation to those ut
Il frn,,, -
ported trouble.
Your Laurcns correspondent has for
wardcd SO full an account that it is uu-
necessary for me to say more than this.
Colonel Traynham, of the Governors
stan, came down to-day with me from
Larrens. He refused to make any state
ment for publication, but intimated that
| had about heard all the facts from
Captain lrby My talk with Captain
lrby assisted me in forming the conclu-
sion set forth above. Colonel Tmynhum
made II brief verbal report to the Governor
this evening and went to bed. His EX-
cellcncy could not be found 1T home,
nor would he be seen for moment at
the meeting Of the trustees of the Uni
versity, which he is attending and which
will last for hours yet, but it may he
voIHucIIly hsStlincu tonight tllat IOl.
Traynham's conclusion agrees substan-
TALLY with those OF Captain lrby, and
that neither he nor the Governor is
alarmed at the prospect
All Quiet in Spnrtnnbmrg.
SPARTANBURG, June 2l.-Furthcr in
vestigation to-day strengthens me in my
opinion that the negroes OF this county
do not contemplate strike, or any yio-
lencc. They are not fools enough. to
wait unit heir crops are nearly finished
with the finest prospects they have had
for years, to begin Il revolution thnt
would damage them in every possible
way.